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RETAILOBSERVER.COM JUNE 2024 10 CES 2024 HIGHLIGHTS • Artificial Intelligence – AI led the global conversation at CES 2024. Companies highlighted the enormous potential of AI to improve our world with cutting-edge applications that will transform how we communicate, do business, and take care of one another. • Human Security for All – CES established access to technology as the eighth pillar of the Human Security for All (HS4A) global campaign, which focuses on the critical role technology plays in improving every aspect of the human experience. Tech is a catalyst for tomorrow, powering solutions to pressing global challenges. This week at CES, Force for Good released a new report at the CES Research Summit on tech's influence on human securities. Aligned with CTA's CES 2024 Tech Trends to Watch, the report proved that universal connectivity and leveraging AI across human securities will improve our world. • Keynotes – For the first time, beauty brand L'Oréal Groupe took center stage for a CES keynote. Joined by partners and actress Eva Longoria, L'Oréal shared a vision of inclusive beauty tech improving lives across the world and highlighted new products and acquisitions. CEOs from Best Buy, Elevance Health, HD Hyundai, Intel, Nasdaq, Qualcomm, Siemens, Snap, and Walmart also took to the keynote stage to present new collaborations across industries, highlight partner- ships with enterprise tech leaders, and announce new products. • Startups – Eureka Park grew this year with a record 1400+ startups, including country pavilions representing France, Italy, Israel, Japan, Korea, Netherlands, and Ukraine. • Mobility – With 600+ mobility exhibitors, CES is one of the world's largest and fastest-growing global auto, mobility, and transportation events. Exhibitors displayed the ecosystem of mobility, with global unveils highlighting the future of autonomous vehicles, electric vehicles, micro-mobility, software-defined vehicles, and flying cars, plus the future of assistive mobility and safety systems. Exhibitors included: BMW, Honda, Hyundai, Kia, Magna, Mercedes, Paccar, Recaro, Sony, Supernal, Togg, and Vinfast. • Sustainability – Exhibitors at CES 2024 showcased their commitment to sustainable solutions through technologies, products, and services to reduce emissions and waste by streamlining electrification, developing renewable energy sources, and experimenting with new technologies such as battery recycling. Exhibitors included: 3M, Caterpillar, Doosan, Goodyear, Jackery, John Deere, HD Hyundai, Kubota, Midbar, Nasdaq, Panasonic, Siemens, and SK Group. • Digital Health – Tools and technologies aimed at lowering costs, improving health equity, and saving lives were highlighted. Innovations included digital therapeutics, mental wellness, sleep tech, women's health tech, and telemedicine. At the CES Digital Health Summit, Mark Cuban and his Cost Plus Drug Company broke news about a new partnership, while capacity crowds joined the Digital Health mixer and programming with officials from the FDA and across the health policy space. During the CTA Foundation pitch contest, eight startups pitched their health tech to a standing-room-only audience. Congratulations to Augmental, the grand prize winner, and Proxy Health, the winner of the audience choice and patient safety prizes. Exhibitors & Sponsors included: Abbott, American Medical Association, American Psychological Association, Dassault Systèmes, Humetrix, Moderna, NuraLogix, Philips, ResMed, Withings, Xenco Medical. CES 2024 CES 2024